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Patterns of international capital flows and productivity growth : new evidence
MacDonald, Margaux - 2015
puzzle. An analysis of the components of capital flows and of gross portfolio positions shows that foreign direct investment … is directed towards countries with the highest growth rates, but that portfolio investment outflows exceed these inflows …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011295656
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An FDI is an FDI is an FDI? : the growth effects of greenfield investment and mergers and acquisitions in developing countries
Harms, Philipp; Méon, Pierre-Guillaume - 2011 - This version: November 15, 2011
We explore the effect of foreign direct investment on economic growth in developing countries, distinguishing between … mergers and acquisitions ("M&As") and "greenfield" investment. A simple model captures the key difference between the two … types of FDI: unlike greenfield investment, M&As partly represent a rent accruing to previous owners, and do not necessarily …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009376718
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FDI and Growth : What Cross-Country Industry Data Say
Cipollina, Maria; Giovannetti, Giorgia; Pietrovito, Filomena - 2011
countries, where the growth enhancing promotion of foreign investment in capital intensive and technologically advanced sectors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014177258
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FDI and Growth : What Cross-Country Industry Data Say
Cipollina, Maria - 2011
countries, where the growth enhancing promotion of foreign investment in capital intensive and technologically advanced sectors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125437
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FDI and Growth : What Cross-Country Industry Data Say
Cipollina, Maria - 2012
investment in capital intensive and technologically advanced sectors is at the heart of the debate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013113327
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Capital flow types, external financing needs, and industrial growth: 99 countries, 1991-2007
Aizenman, Joshua; Sushko, Vladyslav - 2011
We examine the differential impact of portfolio debt, portfolio equity, and FDI inflows on 37 manufacturing industries, 99 countries, 1991-2007, extending Rajan-Zingales (1998). We utilize external finance dependence measures in a series of cross-sectional regressions of manufacturing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009272052
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Remittances, financial development and economic growth in the economic community of West African states
Titoe, Michael D. <Jr.> - In: West African journal of monetary and economic integration 19 (2019) 2, pp. 71-83
There are varied findings on how the remittances, financial development and economic growth relationship works. Some studies find that in countries with low financial development, remittance inflows may have a higher impact on economic growth by serving as a substitute for inefficient or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013348448
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Trade and Investment in the Global Economy
Anderson, James E. - 2017
We develop a dynamic multi-country trade model with foreign direct investment (FDI) in the form of non-rival technology …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012947623
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Trade and investment in the global economy
Anderson, James E.; Larch, Mario; Yotov, Yoto V. - 2017
We develop a dynamic multi-country trade model with foreign direct investment (FDI) in the form of non-rival technology …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011718208
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International Productivity Differences and Roles of Domestic Investment, FDI and Trade
Das, Gouranga Gopal; Nath, Hiranya K.; Yildiz, Halis Murat - 2013
This paper calculates Theil’s entropy index to measure the extent of productivity differences across 92 countries for the period from 1970 to 2003. While there is evidence of increasing differences in productivity across these countries, we observe different patterns when we group the...
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